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Оглавление“Why do ya want only an older man?” Jacob asked.
“Don’t ya want someone who’ll cherish you?”
She flashed him a look, startled by the intensity of his golden gaze. Cherish? She was hoping for someone who would be happy to have her to wife. She would feel blessed to be cherished by her husband, but she doubted that would ever happen.
“Younger men don’t want me.” Annie felt her face heat. “I can trust an older man.”
“What about me?” Jacob asked.
“You? What about you?”
“Don’t you trust me?”
Annie grew flustered as she felt his gaze. “I trust you,” she hedged, wondering where the conversation was leading. “We are friends—” He shifted in his seat, and Annie saw him wince. “I’m sorry. Your hand is hurting you.”
“I’m fine,” he insisted, but his pale features said otherwise.
Was Jacob actually suggesting that she consider him as someone who could be more than a friend? Had he been serious? Testing her? Teasing her? Now that he had put the idea in her mind, she had trouble dismissing it. They were friends, she reminded herself.
